Lack of integrations is a real issue

Hi,

Thank you for sticking with us so far and thank you for your feedback.

The issue is both about demand and capacity.
We have a smaller share of the market than these other solutions.
In many cases, the integrations for these other ecommerce solutions are built by third party developers or even directly the target plateform itself. So they have more money than us, and more people are building integrations for their solutions without them doing it.
So of course it leads to a lot more solutions available.
Basically, they have the momentum we don't have.
To be able to match them, we would have to get bigger. Bring in investors, hire many developers, and invest a lot hoping we would be able to recoup that invested money over the years.

Because even if there is an integration built for a solution, if we don't have enough merchants interested, it's not worth putting in the effort, especially if no one wants to pay first for the development.
For example, we've been working recently on a Swiss QR-Bill payment plugin. It's only useful for Swiss users so not useful to you, but it's really important for them. Someone interested paid us to work on it for them and then release it on our marketplace.
And that's often the case with integrations. a really small share of the users need a particular integration so it's hard to see if it makes sense or not. We've developed many plugins with almost no one using them in the end. For example, I've worked on the Google address Auto fill integration plugin and the address geocoding shipping plugin 2 years ago. So far, sales have not been what I expected for them despite them being really useful for the people needing this.
We're adding integrations every year, but as a small team we can't integrate with everything out there. The list of integrations requested over the years is hundreds of lines long so it grows faster than we can make them. And when you make one you need to maintain it, and when the plateform decides to remove the API for a new one, you have to redo it from scratch all over again especially since you now have users using the old integration.

By the way, a salesforce integration is available here: extensions.joomla.org/extension/js-sf-we...ikashop-integration/
For marketplaces, an integration is available for Amazon here: extensions.joomla.org/extension/amamplace/ but there is indeed no solution for Etsy or Ebay so far.